South China Morning Post’s Verna Yu reports fears for the health of 71-year-old journalist Gao Yu, who was sentenced to seven years in prison in April for leaking state secrets to foreign media. In an earlier profile of Gao for SCMP, Yu noted that she suffers from heart disease, high blood pressure, chronic back pain, and skin allergies aggravated by two previous terms in prison.
Gao, 71 – jailed for seven years in April after being convicted of the charge of leaking